By Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) – Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden’s leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday...

Britain’s High Court has quashed a legal challenge against the detention under anti-terrorism laws of the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought leaks from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to world...

The detention of the partner of a former Guardian journalist has triggered fresh concerns after it emerged that a key reason cited by police for holding him under terrorism powers was the belief that he was promoting a “political or...

UK Asked New York Times To Destroy Edward Snowden Documents; NY Times Ignored Request (via Techdirt) There’s been some back and forth concerning the David Miranda legal fight today and it’s getting fairly ridiculous. The UK...

In the US, we’ve had one of the key authors of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, speak out strongly, saying that the NSA interpretation of the law appears to be completely different than what was meant when the bill was written. It looks...

Britain’s High Court ruled Thursday that material seized from the Brazilian partner of a journalist working to publish secrets from US leaker Edward Snowden can only be partially examined by police. Police in Britain launched a criminal...

Guardian editor-in-chief says he agreed to ‘slightly pointless’ task because newspaper has digital copies outside Britain. Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief, has said that the destruction of computer hard drives...

Home Office claims nine-hour detention of Guardian journalist’s partner was justified to protect public from threat of terrorism The government has embarked on an aggressive offensive to justify the detention of David Miranda by suggesting...

David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, has accused Britain of a “total abuse of power” for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials did not ask the British government to question the partner of the journalist who first reported secrets leaked by fugitive U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden, the White House said on...

Glenn Greenwald: The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended At 6:30 am this morning my time – 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US – I received a telephone call from...

David Miranda, the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, was detained Sunday morning by U.K. authorities in London’s Heathrow airport under the Terrorism Act, according to The Guardian. The 28-year-old was released nine hours...